Josh Brolin

As the son of James Brolin, stepson of Barbra Streisand and husband of Diane Lane, actor Josh Brolin forged his career in the shadow of three formidable talents. In fact, ever since his debut in "The...
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The things they say:

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Dec 21, 2014

"I went out to dinner with him recently after the premiere and I said, 'Congratulations', and I hugged him and then when I went to the other side of the table and I heard it wasn't true, I felt bad, I felt used... so I tried to talk about it and he didn't really engage, and then I had a moment by myself, quiet, and I said, 'I wonder if I'm really talking to Joaquin, himself'." Josh Brolin was caught out by Inherent Vice co-star Joaquin Phoenix's engagement lie after the actor told U.S. chat show host David Letterman he had proposed to his yoga teacher.

"My girlfriend and I climbed Mount Shasta, we climbed Mount Whitney. We went to Switzerland... we did a few Via Feratos, we crossed a 1,000-foot gorge, 1,000 feet down, held on by three or four wires a foot wide, 300 feet across. It scared the living hell out of me... I was in great shape... four months of working out and the first thing I saw was all the other actors with a cigarette in one hand, a glass of wine in the other." Josh Brolin fears he may have taken his training for new mountaineering disaster film Everest too far.

Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel are the films to beat at the Online Film Critics Society awards after scooping six nominations each.
Richard Linklater's drama and the Wes Anderson oddball comedy both received nods in the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay categories, while Boyhood stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette earned nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively.
Other Best Picture nominees include The Lego Movie, Selma, Two Days, One Night, Nightcrawler, Whiplash, Under the Skin and foreign-language films Ida and Mommy.
The Grand Budapest Hotel's star Ralph Fiennes landed a Best Actor nod, alongside Brendan Gleeson for Calvary, Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), Michael Keaton (Birdman) and Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner).
Two Days, One Night star Marion Cotillard will be up against Still Alice's Julianne Moore and Gone Girl's Rosamund Pike for the Best Actress prize.
Josh Brolin, Edward Norton, Mark Ruffalo and J.K. Simmons also earned Best Supporting Actor mentions, while Jessica Chastain and Tilda Swinton compete for Best Supporting Actress.
Other nominees in the Best Director category include brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Two Days, One Night), Ava DuVernay (Selma) and Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin).
Winners will be announced on 12 December (14).

Armand Assante's ex-girlfriend has admitted using Josh Brolin's credit card in a $40,000 (£25,000) shopping spree and has been ordered to pay back half the money. Brazilian Giselle Oliveira has pleaded guilty to charges of grand larceny and misdemeanour criminal possession of stolen property for racking up the debt on the actor's card and for shoplifting from a New York City department store.
During a hearing at Manhattan Supreme Court, Oliveira was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay back $20,000 (£12,500) in restitution, according to the New York Daily News.
Oliveira was previously romantically linked to Private Benjamin actor Assante.

The ex-girlfriend of actor Armand Assante's grand larceny case has been adjourned until later this month (Nov14) after she failed to reach a plea deal over allegations she made fraudulent purchases on Josh Brolin's credit card. Brazilian native Giselle Oliveira stands accused of stealing the No Country For Old Men star's American Express card details and racking up $40,000 (£25,000) in clothing charges between October, 2010 and January, 2013.
She is also facing accusations of shoplifting around $10,000 (£6,250)-worth of goods from top department store Saks Fifth Avenue.
Oliveira, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges, returned to Manhattan Criminal Court with her lawyer on Monday (10Nov14) for a brief meeting with prosecutors in front of Judge Michael Obus.
However, the two sides failed to agree on a suitable deal and the judge postponed the matter until 25 November (14), reports the New York Daily News.
Brolin's representative previously insisted the Oscar nominee had no recollection of ever meeting Oliveira.

He’s one of the biggest names in Hollywood, but Christian Bale has always been somewhat of a mystery. Hell, we didn’t even realize he had a British accent until a few years ago! He commits so fully to his characters that we felt it was only right to commit to digging up facts on this transformative actor. Some you may know already, others might come as a surprise.
1. He was born in Wales, but he’s technically English.
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But to make things even more confusing, he'll sometimes do interviews in an American accent if he's playing an American character.
2. He was the first non-American to portray Batman.
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3. He met his wife, Sibi Blazic, through his Little Women co-star Winona Ryder.
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Blazic was Ryder’s personal assistant.
4. He's an expert at losing and gaining weight.
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Bale transforms for his roles. He infamously lost 63 pounds (yikes) for his role in The Machinist , and gained 43 pounds for his role in American Hustle.
5. He worked with David O. Russell and Amy Adams twice – in both The Fighter and American Hustle.
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6. He was in Newsies.
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He sang! He danced! He was an adorable teenager!
7. He was originally cast to play George W. Bush in the movie W., but dropped out and was replaced by Josh Brolin.
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8. He has a kind heart.
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Following a 2012 shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater during a showing of The Dark Knight Rises, Bale visited survivors in the hospital.
9. He also has a bit of a temper.
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A recording of his tirade on the set of Terminator: Salvation was released – and remixed – in 2009. He apologized for it, though.
10. He was almost replaced by Leonardo DiCaprio in American Psycho.
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Leo dropped out to star in The Beach. We'd say things worked out in favor of Bale.
11. He partially shaved his head to get an authentic-looking combover in American Hustle.
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Now that's dedication!
12. His dad, David Bale, was married to feminist Gloria Steinem from 2000 until his death in 2003.
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13. At age 12, Bale beat out more than 4,000 child actors for the starring role in Empire of the Sun.
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His performance won him the first ever "Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor" award from the National Board of Review.
14. He was just cast to play Steve Jobs.
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He's set to star in the Danny Boyle-directed film Jobs (not to be confused with the Ashton Kutcher flick of the same name). Seth Rogen just signed on to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
15. He bears a striking resemblence to Kermit the Frog.
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We blame the Internet for this one.
Hopefully we made this private actor just a little more knowable.
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A representative for Josh Brolin has dismissed reports suggesting the actor's brother is homeless. Rumours about Jess Brolin's alleged vagrant life appeared in The Mirror newspaper over the weekend (11-12Oct14), alongside a photograph of him appearing to retrieve a bottle from a trash can.
The accompanying speculation suggested the True Grit star's brother was so poor he had to dig in dumpsters for food.
But a rep for the Brolin family says, "Contrary to what has been erroneously reported, Jess is gainfully employed and supports himself.
"If Jess were ever in need of support or any assistance, there would never be a question his family and friends would be there for him under all and any circumstance."
A family source tells the New York Daily News Brolin was actually removing a bottle he had mistakenly thrown out when he was photographed.

Reclusive author Thomas Pynchon is set to make his movie debut as an actor in the film adaptation of his novel Inherent Vice. Director Paul Thomas Anderson offered the elusive literary star a cameo in his film, which will premiere at the New York Film Festival this weekend (04-05Oct14), and he accepted the role.
Josh Brolin, who features in the movie, has confirmed Pynchon is part of the film, telling the New York Times, "I don't think anybody knew (who he was). He came on as the kind of mercurial iconoclast that he is. He stayed in the corner."
Pynchon has chosen to live well away from the spotlight since the release of his first novel V in the early 1960s, refusing to pose for book sleeve photos or give interviews. In 2004 he appeared in animated form on The Simpsons - his character wore a bag over his head to protect his anonymity.
Director Anderson has refused to reveal who Pynchon portrays in his movie adaptation of the author's book.

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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For really values its volume. The movie tosses out three or four stories, twenty-odd characters, a handful of car chases, several dozen throat-slittings and skull-bludgeonings… in their return to the cinematic adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel series, Miller and director Robert Rodriguez seemed bent on packing in as much as they conceivably could. The unfortunate result: not quite the intricate, inviting narrative web that the men set out to create, but a straight through-line of nonstop stuff.
In the most egregious sense, too. While we remember Sin City as a relatively patient illustration of Miller’s virtue-deficient neo-noir kingdom, what we find in this year’s follow-up is a feverish race to expose the audience to every idea the directing duo has up its sleeve.
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So, what we get instead of a fluid story is a whirlpool of events. Each chapter of the clumsily manufactured movie will set you up with a character — an out-of-place Joseph Gordon-Levitt as cocky gambler Johnny, Josh Brolin as a thickheaded do-gooder, and the ragtag team of a destitute Jessica Alba and her devoted muscle Mickey Rourke — only to watch the hero in question stumble upon plot contrivance after plot contrivance, never getting to do much all the while.
And while the style outdoes the substance in the scope A Dame to Kill For’s strong suits, Miller and Rodriguez are not exactly displaying the utmost aesthetic panache in this latest outing. Sure, certain chase scenes are kinetic — and the film might offer the most invigorating visual design of an onscreen hot tub in the history of cinema — but sloppy choreography and a world constructed without depth or sense of place leaves us feeling completely out of touch with the film’s most important character: Sin City.
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Actor Josh Brolin was left disappointed when he missed out on an opportunity to work with Mickey Rourke on their new movie Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. The Men in Black 3 star was eager to take on a role alongside The Wrestler actor and was excited to hear he would be sharing scenes with Rourke.
He says, "I've always been a fan of Mickey's. I'm working with Benecio (Del Toro) right now and we talked about how, when we were growing up, Mickey was someone you always looked up to and I've known him forever... Then finally when (director) Robert (Rodriguez) said, 'Do you want to do this?'... I was like, 'Of course I'll do it and do I have any scenes with Mickey?' (and he said), 'Absolutely'."
However, Brolin learned when he got to the set Rourke had already finished filming his parts and their scenes together would be completed using green screen movie technology.
He continues, "I got to to the set... and I was like, 'Where's Mick?' and (Rodriguez is) like, 'No, he finished his stuff like a month ago...' If you see the movie, I worked with Mickey the entire film, but I never saw Mickey."

Co-starred with Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem in the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men"

Landed featured role as a shallow, self-centered academic caught accused of assaulting a young woman in "Best Laid Plans"

Starred in Spike Lee's remake of "Oldboy"

Summary

As the son of James Brolin, stepson of Barbra Streisand and husband of Diane Lane, actor Josh Brolin forged his career in the shadow of three formidable talents. In fact, ever since his debut in "The Goonies" (1985), Brolin languished for years in roles that were well below his station. Adding to his self-determined persona was an ability to get into occasional trouble - whether it was being mauled by a mountain lion, crashing his motorcycle weeks before shooting a major film, or making headlines with an arrest for a domestic dispute - Brolin had a knack for generating publicity in interesting ways. Meanwhile, he worked steadily throughout his career, though he suffered a string of mediocre movies that included "The Road Killers" (1994), "The Mod Squad" (1999) and "Hollow Man" (2000). But he began to step away from such lowbrow fare with a turn in Woody Allen's serio-comedy "Melinda and Melinda" (2005) and eventually broke free with his acclaimed performance in the Oscar-winning "No Country for Old Men" (2007). He played a crooked cop in "American Gangster" (2007), the bumbling President of the United States in "W." (2008), and San Francisco politician and assassin Dan White in "Milk" (2008). Though he stumbled a bit as the lead in "Jonah Hex" (2010), Brolin rebounded with "True Grit" (2010), proving that his transformation into a highly sought after leading man was no fluke.

Met in 1987 while both were working on "Private Eye" (ABC); Married in 1988; Divorced in 1992

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Mother

Born in 1939; Met Brolin's father James when she worked as assistant casting director on the TV series "Batman" (ABC); married from 1967-85; worked with the Department of Fish and Game, reclaiming animals that had been illegally taken out of the wild; Died at age 55 when she drove her car into a tree in February 1995

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"I played the jock older brother in 'Goonies' when I was in high school. I was reading Stanislavsky and Uta Hagen books on the set to prepare, and [producer] Steven Spielberg looked at me and said, 'Just f*cking scream, man.'" – Brolin quoted in Interview magazine, March 1997

"Anything I possess that's positive and good is because of fatherhood. I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't become a father so young. I totally believe my kids saved me in every way, like somebody who finds religion." – Brolin to Details magazine, April 1997

On Dec. 19, 2004, Brolin was arrested on suspicion of battery for allegedly beating his wife of four months, Oscar nominated actress Diane Lane. A spokeswoman for the couple said the incident was a "misunderstanding" and that Lane was not filing charges.

"The next couple of jobs will determine, at least from a business point of view, if I'm a guy who's actually the real thing," he says, "or I'm a guy who's had a nice moment." – Brolin to Entertainment Weekly, Oct. 19, 2007

On July 12, 2008, Brolin was arrested along with actor Jeffrey Wright and five other crew members of "W" after an altercation at the Stray Cat Bar in Shreveport, LA. Brolin was released after posting a cash bond of $334. Charges were later dropped.

"I've never gotten bitter about where I was at in my career...I was never one of those guys who said, 'Why am I not in this other position? Why am I not that other guy?'" – Brolin to Eddie Vedder in Interview magazine, November 2008

"I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court. Football? Forget it. I was too sensitive for that." – Brolin quoted in Playboy magazine, October 2010

Brolin was arrested on Jan. 1, 2013 in Santa Monica, CA for public intoxication. The actor was not given a citation.